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Author : International Astronomical Union. General Assembly
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Download or read book IAU Today written by International Astronomical Union. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek McNally
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400904975
Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the International Astronomical Union written by Derek McNally and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The XXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union was held in Baltimore, Maryland USA from August 02 to 11, 1988. The Inaugural Ceremony on August 02 was held in the presence of representatives of the United States Governn:ent, t~e S~ate of Maryland, the City of Baltimore and the host institution -the Johns Hopkins Umverslty- as well as of the National and Local Organising Committees. The scientific programme maintained the high standards of the Union and the scientific proceedings may be found either in this volume or in volume 8 of Highlights of Astronomy. The scientific programme was organised by the 40 Commission Presidents and coordinated by the General Secretary (1985-1988), Dr. J.-P. Swings. The local arrangements were effectively made through the National Organising Committee under the Chairmanship of Prof. F. Drake and the Local Organising Committee under the co-Chairmanship of Prof. A. Oavidsen and Dr. R. Giacconi. The smooth day to day operation of the meeting resulted from the incomparable dedication of Karen Weinstock and Harold Screen.
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521852029
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Astrochemistry: Recent Successes and Current Challenges (IAU S231) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date survey of astrochemistry in the early years of the twenty-first century. For researchers and graduate students.
Author : Johannes Andersen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331996965X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book The International Astronomical Union written by Johannes Andersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together with its sister Unions in related natural sciences. It will thus turn 100 years in 2019. Written by a mixed team of insiders and outsiders, this book presents the IAU in the changing context of the historical, scientific and technological development of astronomy during the past 100 years. While much important scientific progress took place already before 1945, the book naturally focuses on the accelerating evolution during the second half of the century. In the past few decades, the previously narrow IAU focus on organising professional astronomy has broadened to include societally relevant activities such as addressing the hazard of asteroid impacts, the planetary status of Pluto in the Solar System, and the hugely successful International Year of Astronomy. Most recently, it is spearheading a combination of science literacy and public outreach. The book will be of interest to professional astronomers as well as an astronomically interested general audience. The book features live personal interviews with as many of the key actors as still possible.
Author : C. de Jager
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401031053
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the International Astronomical Union written by C. de Jager and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing character of the IAU General Assemblies becomes most clear from a comparison of the agenda of the Brighton meeting with that of one of the earlier meetings. The fourth General Assembly (Cambridge Mass. , 1932) had about 240 participants, registered guests included, the Brighton meeting had about 2300 people attending. The Cambridge meeting lasted 5, working days, of which, however, three half days were exclusively devoted to excursions, leaving four real meeting days. At that time the nearly 30 commissions had each only one meeting, during part of a morning or afternoon; some commissions did not meet at all. There was one public lecture, by Sir Arthur Eddington, on 'The Expanding Universe'. Most of the small European countries were represented by two or three delegates only, but the delegations of France and Great Britain were composed of 20 and 18 scientists respectively; at that time there were only two delegates from Germany. After the Brighton General Assembly, with about 200 commission meetings - one commission met eleven times! - six Joint Discussions, four Invited Discourses, a Special Meeting and hardly time for excursions, there were a few complaints about too many overlapping meetings.
Author : Adriaan Blaauw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401109788
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book History of the IAU written by Adriaan Blaauw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History has its origin in a suggestion, made in September 1990 by former IAU General Secretary Derek McNally, who felt "that a 75 year history of the Union was needed before the col lective memory of those who knew the Union before the Second World War vanished. It would then be a preparatory volume to a centennial history in 2019. " Indeed, of those who knew the Union that long ago, few are still with us. Six years ago, at Baltimore on August 2, 1988, listening and reminiscing at the Inaugural Ceremonies of the Union's 20th General Assembly, I realized that it was almost exactly half a century ago that, at the age of 24, I attended the Inaugurations at my "first" Assembly: on August 3, 1938 in Stockholm. Now, in 1994, this is almost 56 years ago, three quarters of the Union's age. Only vague recollections - no better than that -lead me back to this event, just before World War II. And so, this is not a history based on recollection, far from it. Recollection was helpful in that it allowed me, better perhaps than a younger author, to appreciate circumstances under which the letters and reports which form the basis for this History were written. The account is largely based on archival documents, collected from a wide variety of sources.
Author : Hilligje van't Land
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303067245X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Promise of Higher Education written by Hilligje van't Land and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short essays, accessible through open access, which takes the interested reader on a tour across the global higher education landscape. It addresses pertinent themes and challenges in higher education. To mark the 70th anniversary of the International Association of Universities (IAU) and its role in higher education since 1950, experts from around the world share their insights into higher education’s recent past, present and future. The book is divided into six parts: Part I – “70 years of Higher Education Cooperation and Advocacy” looks back at key events in IAU’s history, its mission and significant activities over time, and remarks on the current global context informing its quest to promote academic partnerships and solidarity on a global scale. Part II – “Facilitating International Cooperation” provides for different perspectives on the transformation of the internationalisation of higher education and the contribution of higher education to international cooperation. Part III – “Coding the Values” debates the values upon which higher education was, is and will have to be built to provide for a democratic and inclusive society. Part IV – “The Changing Landscape” analyses various aspects of the transformation of higher education in an evolving context across the globe. Part V – “The Promise of Education” reflects on the role of higher education, its ideals and shortfalls and what it must do to stay true to its promise to help shape our societies. Part VI – “Opening up – The Future of Higher Education” focuses on future scenarios of higher education and call on the reader to envision a different kind of higher education and reimagine the contribution of higher education to society, as well as future roles for the IAU. The book will be of interest to higher education policy makers and academics. It is also of interest to the general public, as it provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges higher education institutions currently face and suggests scenarios of what the future of education might look like.
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521764841
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Stellar Populations written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU Symposium 262 presents reviews on the current understanding of the theories of stellar evolution, galaxy formation and galaxy evolution. It emphasises what we have learned in the past few years from massive surveys covering large portions of the sky (e.g. SDSS, HDF, UDF, GOODS, COSMOS). Several critical aspects of research on stellar populations deserve further effort in order to be brought in tune with other areas of astrophysical research. The next ten years will see the opening of major observatories that will increase the quality and quantity of astronomical data by orders of magnitude. The expected benefits from these instruments for the study of stellar populations are explored. This critical review of state of the art observational and theoretical work will appeal to all those working on stellar populations, from distant galaxies to local resolved galaxies and galactic star clusters.
Author : International Astronomical Union
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the International Astronomical Union written by International Astronomical Union and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U. Esser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662123649
Total Pages : 1266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Literature 1988, Part 1 written by U. Esser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reviews: "Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969 and it has already become one of the fundamental publications in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics and neighbouring sciences. It is the most important English-language abstracting journal in the mentioned branches. ...The abstracts are classified under more than a hundred subject categories, thus permitting a quick survey of the whole extended material. The AAA is a valuable and important publication for all students and scientists working in the fields of astronomy and related sciences. As such it represents a necessary ingredient of any astronomical library all over the world." Space Science Reviews#1 "Dividing the whole field plus related subjects into 108 categories, each work is numbered and most are accompanied by brief abstracts. Fairly comprehensive cross-referencing links relevant papers to more than one category, and exhaustive author and subject indices are to be found at the back, making the catalogues easy to use. The series appears to be so complete in its coverage and always less than a year out of date that I shall certainly have to make a little more space on those shelves for future volumes." The Observatory Magazine#2
Author : Jean-Pierre Swings
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400947429
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the International Astronomical Union written by Jean-Pierre Swings and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The XIXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union was held in New Delhi, India, from November 19 to 28, 1985. It was dedicated to the memory of a former IAU President, Professor M. K. V. Bappu, who tragically passed away on August 19, 1982. On the occasion of the Delhi General Assembly, the IAU Minor Planet Center announced that Minor Planet (asteroid) No. 2596 henceforth will carry the name Vainu Sappu. The full text of the announcement reads: "(2596) VAINU BAPPU = 1979 KN (diameter about 8 kilometers, period 5 years 4 months, mean distance from the Sun around 450 million kilometers) Discovered 1979, May 19, by R. M. West at the European Southern Observatory. Named in memory of Manali f
Author : Mary Zeiss Stange
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412976855
Total Pages : 2017 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World written by Mary Zeiss Stange and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 2017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521889858
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)
Download or read book The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context (IAU S254) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradigm of a dark energy- and dark matter-dominated Universe, with the hierarchical merger scenario for the formation of galaxies, has scored impressive successes in matching the observed Universe. However, the theory fails to explain the difficulty in generating ordinary disk galaxies such as the Milky Way, suggesting that some important physics must be missing in current models. IAU Symposium 254 was organized to address this question, gathering researchers from an unusually broad range of fields, from cosmology to interstellar matter, and the formation and evolution of stars. High-class reviews, lectures and posters combine to define the frontiers in the field and point the way to new avenues of research. This volume presents a unique set of succinct overviews illuminating the full range of topics in this very active field. It also honors Danish astrophysicist Bengt Strömgren (1908-1987), who laid much of the foundation for this entire field.
Author : Karel A. van der Hucht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521856058
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Reports on Astronomy 2006-2009 (IAU XXVIIA) written by Karel A. van der Hucht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transactions XXVIIA Reports on Astronomy 2006-2009 provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of what has been achieved in astronomy during the years 2006 to 2009. These insightful and up-to-date reviews have been written by the presidents and chairpersons of the IAU scientific bodies: the Divisions, the Commissions, and the Working Groups. Topics covered in this wide-ranging volume include: fundamental astronomy; the Sun and heliosphere; planetary sciences; stars; variable stars; interstellar matter; the Galactic system; galaxies and the Universe; optical and infrared techniques; radio astronomy; space and high-energy astrophysics; and other IAU activities. The reviews have been written at a level suitable for colleagues in the same fields, but will also be useful for students and researchers wishing to gain an overview of astronomical fields beyond their own research area.
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521764810
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy (IAU S261) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU S261 summarizes the present state of applied relativity, and discusses the applications and future tests of general relativity.
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521874724
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines (IAU S250) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews our current understanding of the life, evolution and death of massive stars; for researchers and graduate students.
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521856089
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes (IAU S232) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings volume for researchers and graduate students of astronomy, covering the most exciting science and key ELT projects.
